Use this palaeographic utility to apply a stated dating, script, abbreviation, codicological, metrological, layout, or condition rule consistently while preparing manuscripts for scholarly review.

Planned initials

Initials planned in the programme.

Executed initials

Initials actually executed.

Planned miniatures

Miniatures or large images planned.

Executed miniatures

Miniatures actually executed.

Score how much of a planned illumination programme was executed: exact percentages for initials and miniatures (a category with nothing planned counts as 100%) and an overall band at the stated cut-offs (complete 100%, largely complete 75-99%, partly executed 25-74%, barely begun below 25%). The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.^[1]

Overall %

All executed elements as a percentage of all planned elements.

Initials %

Executed initials percentage (100 when none planned).

Miniatures %

Executed miniatures percentage (100 when none planned).

Status band

Status band from the stated cut-offs.

• Script and manuscript evidence varies by language, region, institution, period, scribe, material, restoration, and cataloguing convention. A heuristic flag or score is not an authoritative date, hand attribution, reading, provenance, or conservation diagnosis.
• Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.

Retain page images, scale, foliation, material, provenance, diplomatic transcription, uncertainty, and comparison exemplars; confirm conclusions with codicological context and specialist judgment.

• Correction Over Erasure Flag

  Flag corrections written over erased text and band the practice under the stated rule: none at 0%, incidental below 25%, recurrent 25-60%, systematic above 60% of erasures receiving a written-over correction.

• Eschatocol Completeness Checker

  Score the closing protocol (eschatocol) of a charter against its four standard elements (dating clause, witness list, roboratio, sealing clause) under the stated heuristic: all four is complete, two or three is partial, fewer than two is fragmentary.

• Manuscript Format Classifier

  Classify a codicological format from measured leaf height under the stated adjustable band convention (foliage of at least 280 mm is folio, 200-279 quarto, 130-199 octavo, below 130 small format) and report the exact width-to-height aspect ratio.